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Nu. 6l4,736. Patented Nov. 22, I898.

P. F. MAHAN. APPARATUS FOR USE IN SLAUGHTER HOUSES.

(Application-filed lob. 9, 1898.)

(No Model.)

INVENTUR RTRWKE'MHHA WITNESSES:

ATTOR N EYS.

UNITED STATES EFICE.

PATENT PATRICK F. MAIIAN, or JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR orONE-HALF TO eEoReE B. WILSON, or SAME PLACE.

APPARATUS FOR USE IN SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 614,736, dated November22, 1898.

Application filed February 9, 1898. Serial No. 669,719. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PATRICK F. MAIIAN, a citizen of the .United Statesof America, residing in Jersey City, Hudson county, New Jersey, haveinvented an Apparatus for Use in Slaughter-Houses, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide for slaughter-houses anapparatus to facilitate the handling and cleaning of the carcasses whensuspended from an overhead track. This object I attain as herein afterdescribed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of myimproved apparatus, and Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view of the same.

While my invention is applicable for use in slaughter-houses generallyand for other purposes, I have more especially designed it for use inthat part of a hog, cattle, or sheep slaughtering establishment wherethe dead carcasses are suspended from overhead trolleys and handled byattendants to cut them open and remove the entrails or skin them andthen pass them on to another department for transportation or storage.

In the drawings, B is the overhead track, suspended from overhead beamsA of the fixed structure, and on this track run trolleys D, from whichthe carcasses O are suspended at a convenient height for the attendantsto cut them open or skin them.

To save time and relieve attendants from the labor of pushing the ladentrolleys along from one point to the next, I provide automaticpower-driven feeding devices in juxtaposition to the track at a certainpoint or points, so that the trolleys successively come into the path ofthe feeding devices and are thereby moved, with their suspendedcarcasses, along to the next point or points. As the simplest form ofsuch a feeding device I prefer to use a horizontal wheel E on a verticalpower-driven shaft F, mounted in bearings in the fixed overheadframework near the track 13 at the desired point. This revolving wheelhas radial arms 6 e, which project out under the track B and come intocontact with the trolleys D as the near-by operating attendant finisheshis work on the successive carcasses and moves them into the path of thewheel.

In conjunction with the above-described appliance I provide overheadwater-spraying pipes P P at a point along the track out of the way ofthe operating attendants, but in the neighborhood of the wheel, so thatas the carcasses are being traversed along under the action or impetusofthe feed-wheel they (the carcasses) will be thoroughly washed down bythe overhead sprays.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of the overhead track andtrolleys of a slaughter-house with a re volving feed-wheel adjacent tothe track, and means for revolving said wheel always in the samedirection, and having arms to act on the carcass-carrying trolleys andtraverse them along the track, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the curved overhead track and trolleys of aslaughter-house with a feeding device to act on the trolleys andoverhead spraying-pipes curved to conform to the track and to wash thesuspended carcasses as they are traversed by the said feeding device,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

18 PATRICK F. X MAHAN.

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Witnesses F. WVARREN. WRIGHT, IIUBERT HOWSON.

